Strategic Integrated Scheduler – Defense Manufacturing

Karman; Gulfport (MS); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Job summary

Karman Space & Defense is seeking an Integrated Scheduler in Gulfport, MS to develop and maintain enterprise schedules that connect program milestones, production sequencing, capacity forecasts, and cross-functional execution.

You will ensure schedule accuracy, integrate ERP data, and provide leadership with visibility into constraints, resource needs, and schedule-driven risks, enabling on-time delivery of complex manufacturing programs for national defense customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, engineering, operations management, supply chain, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5 or more years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, production planning, manufacturing scheduling, or a related discipline.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and enterprise scheduling systems.
• Understanding of Project Server or enterprise project management environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules.
• Experience with resource‑loaded schedules and manpower planning.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and schedule or resource reporting.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and incorporating actual labor hours and costs into project or production analysis.
• Ability to analyze complex data and translate findings into actionable information for Program Managers and leadership.
• Understanding of manufacturing or production environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintains enterprise scheduling standards, templates, calendars, milestones, and work breakdown structures to ensure consistency across programs.
• Oversees schedule development and updates in Microsoft Project and Project Server, ensuring schedules are resource-loaded, logically linked, baselined, and aligned with execution needs.
• Reviews schedules submitted by Program Schedulers and provides corrective guidance to strengthen logic, sequencing, resource loading, and feasibility.
• Supports Program Managers and Program Schedulers with integrated master schedule development, analysis, and recovery planning.
• Translates program schedules into actionable production schedules and partners with Operations to align manufacturing sequences, production rates, and work center requirements.
• Integrates ERP actuals—including labor hours, material costs, and performance data—into schedule analysis to improve forecasting and variance identification.
• Develops and maintains full-time equivalent (FTE) manpower plans and resource-capacity models to forecast staffing needs and identify constraints.
• Performs critical-path and near-critical-path analysis, identifies schedule risks, and develops recovery plans or alternative scenarios.
• Ensures cross-functional schedule integration across Engineering, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Facilities, and other teams.
• Provides leadership with accurate forecast dates, workload projections, and visibility into emerging risks and capacity constraints.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Manufacturing knowledge

Scheduling

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Project Server

Deltek Costpoint

ERP integration

Job description

Karman Space & Defense is seeking an Integrated Scheduler in Gulfport, MS to develop and maintain enterprise schedules that connect program milestones, production sequencing, capacity forecasts, and cross-functional execution.

You will ensure schedule accuracy, integrate ERP data, and provide leadership with visibility into constraints, resource needs, and schedule-driven risks, enabling on-time delivery of complex manufacturing programs for national defense customers.